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      Darden reviews

      3.8

      68% would recommend to a friend

      (2,844 total reviews)

      Rick Cardenas

      72% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Darden has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,844 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Darden employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restaurants & Food Service industry (3.7 stars).

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      3K reviews
      4.0
      Jan 16, 2009

      Darden...so far!

      Restaurant manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Compensation is pretty good. Although I had concerns with the buyout (when Longhorn and Capital Grill was purchased by Darden) everything has gone okay. Darden will continue to grow Longhorn and streamline the purchasing and receiving process. They will probably not be too good for Capital Grill though. Darden continues to be a competitive employer through research of other companies.

      Cons

      Employee Relations is too involved in decision making. They are thousands of miles away and want to run the restaurant for the management teams. Darden is a huge company and they are afraid of employee relations law suits. Health Insurance is aweful.

      3.0
      Jan 2, 2009

      Perfect Job, Needs better pay

      Server's assistant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      I loved the people that i worked with. Most of the guest were very nice as well. I also like the fact that employees got 50% off the food they were buying if they worked that day. I think that is very nice of them

      Cons

      I think that for the amount of work a servers assistant did, the pay should be a little more that what it is. I dont think it is fair that we only get tipped out so little at the end of each day, sometimes i feel like the servers assistant to more that the actual servers do

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